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| The Holiday Show by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 44. No chorus. Lots of characters, but lots of flexibility for doubling. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A series of weather-themed sketches linked by the format of a fictional TV news/current affairs show. |
| Synopsis | A TV show about the British Weather and global warming, designed for a class presentation. |
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| Hollingsborough Children's School Nativity Play by Archie Wilson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. It is intended that adults play all the roles (despite there being only one or two roles in which the adults play adults). |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Parody of a children's nativity play in which adults take the roles of the children |
| Synopsis | It's Nativity time again, and the kids are having the usual trouble - they can't keep the lines straight, can't pronounce the long words and want to wave at their parents as soon as they're onstage. This play will feel very familiar to a lot of people!
It should be emphasised that this is a parody and is not intended as a children's nativity play! |
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| Home Health by George Douglas Lee |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy on a split set depicting two bedrooms. US English. |
| Synopsis | David, recovering from difficult surgery, is confined to bed. His elderly bedridden mother-in-law is in another bedroom. Wife Sue bounces back and forth taking care of both of them. The arrival of a home health nurse puts the cat amongst the pigeons as she and David get a little too close. |
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| The Honorable Knight by Stewart Boston |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Nothing remarkable in the characters (apart from the dragon, obviously). |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A light comedy, playing on the traditions of the knightly stories. Split-stage set, with one permanent location and the other half of the stage doubling for two other locations. |
| Synopsis | Before leaving his castle for the last time, Sir Gawain of the renowned Round Table reluctantly reveals a tale of his exploits that shows him in a less than favourable light. |
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| Hood by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] Plus additional time for songs and dances. |
| Music | Production notes list recommended songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Not a true British Pantomime (lacks, for example, the ritual audience participation and pantomime dame), but contains many of the ingredients - plenty of jokes and extravagant characters. |
| Synopsis | The Sheriff of Nottingham has taken over Loxley Manor and plans to marry Marian. Prince John is coming to the wedding, together with his personal assistant and a passing bishop. Robin Hood assembles his Merry Men but with unexpected plans. |
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| Hood - The Sequel by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. No formatl chorus, but the number of guards and jailers has some flexibility. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play for kids. In theory, four locations, but no real set requirements. |
| Synopsis | 'Good' King Richard is dead and 'Bad' Prince (now 'King') John has succeeded to the throne. However the King has been forced to sign the Magna Carta which means that he needs to behave himself. This results in Robin Hood being able to give up his outlaw life in Sherwood Forest and return to Loxley Manor as Sir Robin of Loxley. Now married to his beloved Lady Marian, all seems well with the world. Not quite so, for Robin's old nemesis, the Sheriff of Nottingham, now unemployed as a result of council cutbacks, is hatching a fiendish plot to frame Robin for a heinous crime against the state. |
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| Hope - A Monologue by Frank Flynn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act monologue. Single outdoor set (which can be implied rather than fully built). Written in Canadian English. |
| Synopsis | Young mother Hope waits in the park for a meeting that will change her life. She tries to comfort her tiny baby, though she has no new clothes, nor food for her. A very emotive piece. |
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| Hornet Girl by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. Chorus. The chorus is not essential, but the numbers of soldiers and peasants is flexible, particularly if music is to be incorporated in the production. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One act comedy for kids. Nominally two sets, but no specific requirements for either. Whilst it isn't a musical, it would be possible for songs or dances to be incorporated (in one place, for example, it would give more time for a costume change.) |
| Synopsis | A poor family of tenant farmers is in danger of eviction by the cruel baron until a comic book super-hero turns up in the form of Hornet Girl. The Baron realises that wherever there are super-heroes, there are super-villains, and he sets out to get one on his side. Enter Kaptain Kruelty to do whatever is the opposite of saving the day... |
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| The Horrible Hot Air Homicide by Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Melodrama stereotypes - the wicked squire, the poor-but-hones heroine, etc. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | One song (to a G&S tune). Sheet music for the song is supplied with the producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | Melodrama set in Victorian times, but written in the 21st century - so something of a send-up of the format. |
| Synopsis | 'The Horrible Hot Air Homicide' - or 'Fanny's Free For All' sees the wicked squire in pursuit of the poor heroine, Fanny. However, in fear that his past misdeeds will be exposed, the squire frames his rival for murder, then furnishes a fiendish fate for Fanny. |
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Horseplay by Graham Jones
The precursor full-length version of this play won the Drama Association of Wales playwriting competition in 1980. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Compelling one-act drama. Single set - just a committee room table and chairs. Contains adult themes. |
| Synopsis | After a post-match celebration, three rugby players are accused of raping a girl. Through the old boys' network, the matter is dropped, but the club barmaid won't let it rest. Thanks to her persistence, one of the other members starts to see things in a different light too. |
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